We Must be Open (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
All of our days, on the journey of life we must be open, available living with a willing heart open ...
All of our days, on the journey of life we must be open, available living with a willing heart open ...
At our table, gathering, Luke searching the scriptures, the lessons for a recipe for a life, lived in piety blending ...
The coming of the Spirit the flames of Pentecost the breath of life from God foretold by the living Messiah ...
The words of the scripture burning within them the fire of their spirits their hearts aglow with an urgency racing ...
With Cleopas, walking home on the Road to Emmaus Leaving Jerusalem, on a journey traveling from the city of David ...
Walking with them on the Emmaus road this week after Easter the same doubts, the same lack of understanding, true ...
Walking with Christ unaware of the teacher's name sorrowful, heavy laden the weight of the death of the Master the ...
They were living, pursuing seeking after other wealth not the material trappings of life not holding back, giving all selling ...
One of the questions to ponder this night was the words of the good thief hanging on the cross What ...
In repentance, in asking for God's mercy, for a bit of grace the good thief, hanging on the cross, next ...
The sinner, knowing himself, chiding his fellow, speaking truth that day the righteousness of their sentence the judgment upon them ...
Prophesy! Prophesy! they shouted for the Lord to speak from the cross to change his fate, to bring the kingdom ...
Under the shadow of death the watchful eye of fate he walked to the place of the skull, Golgotha Innocent, ...
Under the leaf litter the matted grass green shoots new life, pushing skyward out of the awakening earth the cycle ...
A richer story, a richer life carrying more, of the word of God words written indelibly, engraved on my mind, ...
In his witness, his testimony of his acts his works, his perseverance, his love and his caring, he changed himself, ...
a simple loaf, an earthen cup uncovered on the table, an offering a living candle, before the cross purple cloth, ...
Within each of us a life of Grace, abounding all around, living right with God within us, choice, everlasting to ...
Before we ask, before we bow in prayer God is working, to answer, to lift us up to comfort our ...
With the blood of the lamb prepared to be ink, grace written on our hearts God's everlasting love seeking us, ...
Like the father of the prodigal son ever waiting for his return so is God, waiting for us for each ...
The word, simple, in some circles a put down someone simple is a negative thing simple, slow, uneducated, not with ...
Our lives, like glass jars filled by the stones, by sand, by water Be purposeful in filling the days of ...
Rest from the burdens, the heavy loads of life, of our day to day, our lives cluttered filled by the ...
The words of the scripture, the tip of the iceberg, a foretaste for it is in you that I have ...
Rainbows are but one of the signs covenants of the creator The order of the world His faithfulness to us, ...
From the earth, from the ashes we are formed, humble clay given living water, the breath of life after the ...
Shining through, the smooth, smooth surface our bodies, burned clean in the fires, not consumed, refined instead over and over ...
Our lives, changed, tested, melted, molded in the flames, in the struggles, in the challenges the heartache, in the trials ...
The scripture revealing, the fires of life, the refining fire of God the fires of the spirit, landing on us ...
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